[Tex/LaTex] Start page numbering at page three together with twopage

page-numberingtitles

I can't figure out how to start the page numbering on the third page, e.g. after the title page and the contents page.

\documentclass[twoside,a4paper]{book}

\usepackage{fourier}

 \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Required for inputting international characters
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Output font encoding for international characters

 \usepackage[parfill]{parskip}



 \begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
 title here
\end{titlepage}
\cleardoublepage
\setcounter{page}{1}
\chapter{chapter}

 \end{document}

This only works if I choose the option to be oneside. If I choose it to be twoside, it does not work. I haven't found any answer to this question somewhere else.

Just to be claer: I chose the documentclass "book" with the option twoside. Therfore, after the title page there is a second blank page and then the chapter starts. I would like to start the page numbering on the same page as the chapter starts. If I just add something like

\cleardoublepage
\setcounter{page}{1},

then the second page, e.g. the blank page, gets the page number 2 and is displayed on this page. The third page then starts with the number 1 again. So, I just want to remove the number on the second/blank page.

Best Answer

Use \pagenumbering{gobble} for the first the first part of your document and
\pagenumbering{arabic} for the following chapters:

\documentclass[twoside,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{fourier}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\begin{titlepage}
title here
\end{titlepage}
\cleardoublepage% ensures that the page numbering will change on a recto page
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\chapter{chapter}
\end{document}

Result:

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